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by jxf 13y ago
That's pretty much what I just said. "In this case it's okay as long as you reproduce the license in any redistributions (e.g. hosting it on GitHub)."
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by jxf 13y ago
Don't you tell me what to do! Upvoted.
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by jxf 13y ago
Generally speaking, that's not what "open source" means. Reading the license agreement is always required to determine if that's actually okay to do. In this case it's okay as long as you reproduce the license in an
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by jxf 13y ago
If you want to go straight to the horse's mouth and just start hacking (this is Hacker News, after all!), the Broadcom downloads are here: * BCM21553 VideoCore IV graphics driver source: http://www.broadcom.com/docs&#
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Prolog interpreter using only C++ template metaprogramming(github.com)
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by jxf 13y ago
It's astounding how accurate they were using only statistical methods: > Analysis of wheels from two tanks (48 wheels each, 96 wheels total) yielded an estimate of 270 produced in February 1944 , substantially more than had prev
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by jxf 13y ago
That definitely wouldn't work with this strategy (two copies), because you wouldn't be able to tell which copy was the mutated one. Error-correcting codes to the rescue. :)
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by jxf 13y ago
I didn't say I was okay with any of it -- in fact, I said the opposite ("[this] sucks"). However, it's also perfectly legal, as far as I can tell. I guess I don't really get what consumer pressure is going to do, re
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by jxf 13y ago
I don't understand how the challenge to Apple is supposed to work. Isn't this equivalent to, say, Wal-Mart deciding not to stock your widgets anymore because they're going to manufacture a competing widget? It sucks, sure, bu
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by jxf 13y ago
You'll get sweat too, but there'll be soap from the sink in there. Unless you have some very unique genes, that didn't come from your hands! The soap got in through the edge of the glove, not through the glove. Your test wo
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by jxf 13y ago
Here's a test for you: dry your hands, then take a pair of dry latex gloves, then dunk your hands in a soapy sink for three seconds. Take off the gloves. Your hands will be at least a little damp and soapy. How did that happen, if late
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by jxf 13y ago
Gloves don't work. The chemicals impregnate the gloves and then the situation's even worse, since they're being pressed against your skin for long periods of time.
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by jxf 13y ago
This is a pretty linkbaity oversimplification. It's designed to appeal to the belief that there's a "magic bullet" for everything. Hiring people via interviews is hard, because evaluating people with limited time and con
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by jxf 13y ago
I didn't track this for purposes of the experiment, but most people were referrals from past clients. I think consulting-type work benefits from this a lot, because you work with a lot of people. Your professional network gets larger m
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by jxf 13y ago
SO ranks very high on Google searches, so people Googling for my name usually find my SO profile quickly. It's definitely helped even though I don't use it much these days.
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by jxf 13y ago
That's an interesting thought, although I think it's a confusing call to action. Also I'm not really in a position to do another experiment since I just started building something else now! ( http://uphex.com )
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by jxf 13y ago
I've never accepted or offered referral fees as far as I can remember. I'm not sure I've thought about it enough to have an opinion on it.
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by jxf 13y ago
I just alternated whether someone was in group A or B, because I responded to the e-mails as they came in, at the end of each day. So it wasn't truly random, no. On the other hand I didn't control when someone wrote in to me, so a
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by jxf 13y ago
Interesting; I ran essentially the exact same experiment a while back (June to August 2012) and had a different conclusion! -- 68 incoming consulting leads -- group A: responded to 34 with "let me know how I can help" -- group B:
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by jxf 13y ago
I see that they price in terms of events/month. Is there a limit as to how big an "event" can be? Is there a limit to how long they hold onto it?
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by jxf 13y ago
Not accurate. For US federal taxes, you can deduct gambling losses against gambling winnings, but not against your income. If you earn $50,000 in income, $X in winnings, and $Y in losses, you pay taxes on $50,000 of income, plus taxes on $X
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by jxf 13y ago
US here. I prefer to take frequent, short breaks (3-day, 4-day weekends) for occasional battery-recharging, with periodic longer vacations (9-day excursions somewhere), especially to go somewhere I've never been. I try not to work on s
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by jxf 13y ago
Wouldn't colliding with the walls of the chamber be extremely undesirable? That seems like it would create stress/damage in the chamber, and given how sensitive and expensive ALPHA is I'd imagine that they don't want to
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by jxf 13y ago
Can someone explain where the antihydrogen winds up after being created? Is it annihilating with something?
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by jxf 13y ago
In another comment OP says the source is US Census Bureau.
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by jxf 13y ago
I hope Crush [0] sues them for trademark infringement and gives them a taste of their own medicine. [0] http://www.crushsoda.com/
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by jxf 13y ago
He took out all the fun parts. Can't "format C:", "del command.com", etc. :(
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by jxf 13y ago
Just to make the call to action a little more direct, the donation link is here: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
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by jxf 13y ago
Try using the raw link I posted afterwards. That'll give you as much room as your browser window has.
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I notice the authors don't actually talk about accuracy. It's 1,000x faster, but what is gained or lost in terms of accuracy? We can build a spelling corrector which is accurate most of the time and much faster than the Faroo impl

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